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Diplomacy: Europe still has no single foreign policy voice
25 April 20135610PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
EU-Serbia: EU accession, but not overnight
23 April 2013412PresseuropDie Presse, EUobserver.com -
Diplomacy: Berlin calls for more powers to EEAS
20 March 2013942PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
EU-Libya: Ashton’s service suspected of favoritism
23 May 2012312PresseuropEUobserver.com, Rue89 -
European diplomacy: Lady Ashton due for a barracking
23 May 20111PresseuropThe Daily Telegraph -
Editorial: End of the line
8 April 201141Presseurop -
Institutions: What action, Lady Ashton?
28 January 20112612 Le Monde Paris -
European diplomacy : The Lady vanishes
7 October 201064 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
External Affairs: Jobs for the old boys
23 August 2010831 Dziennik Gazeta Prawna Warsaw -
Pakistan: Why is Europe so slow to react?
13 August 2010291PresseuropPresseurop -
Diplomacy: Lady Ashton's large diplomatic body
27 April 2010PresseuropEl Periódico de Catalunya -
Diplomacy : EEAS, the toothless colossus
29 March 2010131 El País Madrid -
Diplomacy: Ashton plans single EU spy hub
22 February 2010PresseuropEUobserver.com -
High Representative: The bureaucratic monster at her feet
20 November 20091 Der Spiegel Hamburg -
Foreign policy: The peacekeeper's lament
21 October 2009Dziennik Gazeta Prawna Warsaw -
After Lisbon (2): Europe’s plot to take over the world
7 October 200926 Financial Times London
Catherine Ashton was cast as Europe’s international voice, the head diplomat of an EU full of world-wide ambitions. Unfortunately, she is not making her voice heard, is nearly invisible and has already lost the confidence of most of the member states. 
An efficient diplomatic service is not enough: EU's member states are still lacking a coherent common foreign policy, writes Gazeta Wyborcza. 
Only two of the EU’s 115 ambassadors come from central Europe, all the rest come from Old Europe. As the "Foreign Affairs ministry" gets up and running, Poland warns that it will not tolerate the stitch-up. 
Will Catherine Ashton’s new plan for a “European External Action Service” suffice to propel the EU to the world power status to which it lays claim? Nothing is less certain, in view of the sheer size of the envisaged diplomatic colossus, the states’ reluctance to yield any of their prerogatives to it and the institutional wrangling over its powers. 
With her appointment as the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy, Catherine Ashton has become overnight one of the world’s most powerful women. But her role, considered even more prestigious than that of EU President, is not without pitfalls, reports Der Spiegel. 
Diplomats, soldiers, policemen: from the Balkans to Afghanistan, the EU is deploying more or less ambitious peacekeeping missions. But in a report two experts assert that lack of organisation or commitment from member states means that the results often fall short of expectation, reports Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. 
Strengthened by Ireland’s ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, the European Union, it is argued, may now be on the verge of becoming a global superpower. The way to achieve this ambition, notes Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times, is in using the new platform that the G20 offers.